Legal Writing in Plain English¶
Garner, B. A. (2001). Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises. University of Chicago Press.
Cited by¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Primes¶
- Explanatory Overlay Masking Structural Debt
- Legal drafting: clarifying clauses, defined-terms sections, and "for the avoidance of doubt" provisions that grow to compensate for structurally ambiguous operative language.
This sourceArgues for redrafting structurally ambiguous operative language rather than accreting defined-terms and "for the avoidance of doubt" clauses; treats clarity as a drafting-structure problem.
- Legal drafting: clarifying clauses, defined-terms sections, and "for the avoidance of doubt" provisions that grow to compensate for structurally ambiguous operative language.
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
Registry ID ref:33af4924b1aa · see in the full table